Hitchcock Chronology: Shirley MacLaine

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Shirley MacLaine...

1954

August

• Hitchcock dispatches Herbert Coleman to New York to look for a suitable lead actress for The Trouble with Harry, where he watches Shirley MacLaine standing in for Carol Haney in musical The Pajama Game. The following day, Coleman arranges a screen test for MacLaine.

September

• 4th - Principle photography on To Catch a Thief is completed and the film moves into post-production. Hitchcock boards the 8pm Santa Fe Super Chief at Los Angeles's Union Station to New York via Chicago. Once in New York, Hitchcock stays at the St. Regis Hotel where he meets Shirley MacLaine for the first time — when MacLaine admits to her lack of acting experience, Hitchcock says "All this simply means that I shall have fewer bad knots to untie."

1955

September

• 25th - Hitchcock and Shirley MacLaine appear as guests on the NBC Radio series Monitor where they promote The Trouble with Harry.
• 30th - The world premiere of The Trouble with Harry takes place in Barre, Vermont, with Shirley MacLaine and Hitchcock as the guests of honour at a civic dinner.